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Lexden Cemetery
Hob Uid: 384142
Location : Essex Colchester Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : TL9750024900
Summary : Early Iron Age cemetery which continues in use into the Roman period. At least 14 Iron Age and 1 Roman flat cremation graves and 2 barrows. Finds were first made when Lexden Park was extended about 1823, only two Barrows now survive, TL 92 SE 73, 74.
More information : (TL 975249) Early Iron Age Cemetery (NR). (1) (TL 97512494)Celtic Amphora found 1823 (NAT). (2) The Lexden Cemetery: An important cemetery with rich burials mainly of Iron Age date but extending into the Roman period. Finds were first made when Lexden Park was extended about 1823 and mention is made of a number of barrows. Hull could not find any evidence for the barrows apart from the two still in existence (TL 92 SE 73, 74). Further burials were found when the water main was laid on the west side of St. Clare Road in 1908 and others in 1913. Hawkes mentions at least 14 Iron Age flat cremation graves and one of early Roman date (TL 92 SW 71). Hull states that the burials to the north are a later phase probably continuing into the Roman period, AD 43 to 61 and beginning again in the Flavian period finally ending in the 3rd Century. Finds in Colchester Museum. (3-5)

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Source details : OS 1:2500 1969
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Source details : OS 1:2500 1923
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Source details : Hawkes C F C and Hull M R. 1947 Camulodunum 13-14
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : Hull M R. 1959. Roman Colchester. 252-3
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Source details : (H Laver)
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Vol(s) : Dec-13

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Iron Age
Display Date : Iron Age
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Cremation Cemetery, Burial, Barrow
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit

Monument Period Name : Early Iron Age
Display Date : Early Iron Age
Monument End Date : -300
Monument Start Date : -800
Monument Type : Cremation Cemetery
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 299
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Cremation Cemetery, Grave, Barrow
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TL 92 SE 68
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1996-01-01
End Date : 1998-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EVALUATION
Start Date : 2016-01-01
End Date : 2016-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Lexden Cemetery